Asbestos Managment

Scope of Work:
Neumeyer Environmental Services (NES) performed the Waste Management to include a wide variety of site work and environmental remediation tasks at a PADEP designated Act 2 site that had been the site of large scale tank farms, and more recently, a demolition and salvage yard.

Site Work:

To facilitate the work to be performed, NES improved and built site access and haul roads, installed concrete entrances to PennDOT’s road, mobilized a trailer complex, and installed laydown and parking areas.

Waste Management

Contaminated Soil and Buried Debris Disposal.

NES excavated over 200,000 tons of soil and buried debris from the site, coordinating with several trucking companies and four landfills to ensure timely and proper landfill disposal of the materials.

Hazardous Material, Chemical, and Water Inventory and Management:

NES inventoried and collected large quantities of chemicals from around the site, in addition to pumping product and liquid from storage tanks, piping, and excavations. All wastes were sampled, profiled, and properly disposed of at a number of licensed facilities.

Asbestos

NES performed asbestos abatement in several structures and mobile homes on the site.

Well Closure

NES closed 27 monitoring wells and one drinking water well on the site.

NES drained over 10,000 linear feet of pipe remaining from the tank farms that previously were in place at the site. Approximately 7,000 feet of pipe was excavated, cut, and removed, and approximately 3,000 feet was filled with grout and closed in place because it ran thru a wetland.

Scope of Work:
Neumeyer Environmental was contracted to manage contaminated soils that had been identified in a former auto salvage yard within the roadway widening and expansion project. The adjacent streambed had been contaminated as well and required remediation to remove contaminated sediments, enclose the stream in a box culvert and perform minor relocation in accordance with PADEP requirements. Neumeyer Environmental also provided sampling and analysis in support of the work.

Neumeyer Environmental was also contracted to remove asbestos building materials from structures scheduled to be demolished.

Scope of Work:
Homeland security regulations required removal of five multi-story office buildings surrounding this nuclear power station in order to open up defensive lines of sight. The buildings were contaminated with asbestos-containing materials and electrical equipment that contained PCBs.

Neumeyer Environmental removed over 2,500 cubic yards of asbestos materials and approximately 250 cubic yards of PCB-containing electrical components. Following removal of these contaminants, Neumeyer Environmental demolished the structures and recycled 1,900 tons of steel and non-ferrous metals. One structure housed a full-scale model breeder reactor, 14′ in diameter and 50′ high, constructed during the 1950s. We constructed a shipping container and relocated the model to a storage facility. The reactor model will be displayed in a museum dedicated to the history of nuclear power.

The renovation and upgrade of the nuclear power facility is an ongoing process due to the magnitude of the work. The project is being performed with a focus on recycling and salvage in support of environmental conservation.

Scope of Work:
Neumeyer Environmental assisted in the decommissioning of a former light bulb manufacturing facility. The facility had been used during World War II for the development of the atom bomb. Radiological, mercury and asbestos contamination was present in nearly 1,000,000 square feet of the facility.

The services Neumeyer Environmental provided included:
•Decontamination of building components and equipment.
•Sizing and packaging of contaminated waste.
•Complete dismantling of two buildings.

90% of the structure was decontaminated on site allowing nearly 1,600 tons of debris to be handled as construction debris saving the client substantial disposal costs. The site has been redeveloped as a mixed-use shopping and residential complex.

Scope of Work:
A Department of Defense facility managed by Westinghouse Corporation repaired reactor-circulating pumps that were used on nuclear-powered submarines and ships. After years of operation, radiological and asbestos contaminants were present throughout the structure and subsurface soil. This 30,000 square foot building required decontamination prior to its demolition.

The project involved decontamination of the pump repair building, approximately 30,000 square feet. All interior surfaces were decontaminated on-site. After decontamination, the structure was demolished. Approximately 90% of the structural material was recycled after the decontamination process. Contaminated soil beneath the structure was removed and packaged for off-site disposal. The site was backfilled and readied for site restoration.

Recycling of the demolition debris provided significant savings to Westinghouse.